Extreme Beauty in Vogue
本書の概要・感想
ハードカバー: 200ページ
出版社: Skira (2009/10/13)
言語 英語, 英語, 英語
ISBN-10: 8857200329
ISBN-13: 978-8857200323
発売日： 2009/10/13
2009年春にミラノで刊行された同名書。今回、ドルチェ&ガッバーナの協力を得て新たに編み直された。20・21世紀最高峰のカメラマンたちの写真が満載。非常に官能的で非常に挑発的な物語を表現。エドワード・スタイケンの新古典主義から、アーニー・リーボビッツの型にはまらないヌード、そして、ヘルムート・ニュートンの積極的な肖像画法や、スティーブン・クラインのモダニズムまで。
This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title (Milan, Spring 2009), is produced in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana. Always audacious, sometimes outrageous, Vogue’s images distinguish themselves by their willingness to explore the limits of contemporary ideas of beauty and they are created by the greatest photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The one hundred or so featured prints reveal profoundly sensual and highly provocative narratives that bear witness to complex cultural attitudes toward female appearance and self-expression. From the neoclassical figures of Edward Steichen to the unconventional nudes of Annie Leibovitz, the aggressive portraiture of Helmut Newton, and the modernism of Steven Klein, the photographs in this volume consider the evolving female subject, in all her strength and contradiction. An entire section is devoted to Irving Penn, who transforms the face and body into images of extraordinary imaginative and aesthetic power.
